Teenagers Arrested On Burglary Charges

New Britain Police News

Four young people who posed as door-to-door newspaper solicitors were arrested Tuesday morning after they broke into an Uncas Street house and fled in a car that had been stolen earlier, police said.

Danny Whistnant, 16, of 343 Chestnut St., New Britain, and three juveniles were captured after a neighbor called police to say that a car full of teenage boys had just raced away from an Uncas Street home.

The four had first gone to another house, where they said they were soliciting for an area newspaper, police said. A woman at that house refused to let them in and called her neighbor, who in turn called the newspaper, police said.

When she learned that the newspaper had no solicitors going door to door Tuesday morning and then saw the youths running from another house on Uncas Street, she called the police.

She was able to give police a description of the youths and the car they fled in, police Sgt. Henry Orzel said. Police found the car and the four teenagers a short distance away.

The four all face burglary and larceny charges. The three juveniles, two aged 15 and the other 14, have been referred to juvenile authorities.

The arrests are a good example of what can happen when a concerned neighbor notifies police of suspicious activity, Orzel said.